Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Kristi Walker 2019 5 Jun COMMENTS 3 You could look at it this way: Only one time did a bad thing happen to a good person. That person was Christ. The bad thing that He suffered was the punishment that our sins deserved. We are only good because He has taken our sins and is transforming us into His good image. The question still remains: Why do bad things happen to those who have faith in Christ? 1. God uses pain to get our attention. “We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world” (C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain ). 2. God uses pain to help us grow. “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.Let perseverance finish its work so that ...